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[Terri Rau Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 2]

Hi Everyone;

Is anyone else an affiliate for Amazon Associates?

I have been learning alot about review sites, but I've been having a blast with the Amazon module they provide you over at Squidoo.

Just curious if there are others wanting to share strategies and ideas about Amazon.

I hope ppl aren't letting the small commission structure scare them off, you can really do well with volume.

Cheers,
Terri

[Rob Fore Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 3]

We spent a couple years building out mini blogs that featured amazon products with good success. Depending on the season, most of these blogs were doing an average of $40 per month... so the big bucks came from scaling the model up. It works and the commissions do get better with volume. Plus the BRAND helps make the sale and they do a great job at upselling as well.

[David Johnson Company: Numis Network Contribution Level: 2]

I think Rob is right, I am starting to make some mini-sites for a clickbank product and I have heard of some people are doing the same with Amazon products. Of course, you can do the same with several products from Amazon, more sites should equal more sales if you do the keyword research and preselling for your website correctly.

I have not made a sale yet for my clickbank product, but I am just getting it set up and there is no affiliate link on my mini-site yet.

[Terri Rau Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 2]

Hey guys, thanks for commenting. Quick question....When you say "mini sites" are you meaning 3 or so pages or more?

Cheers,
Terri

[David Johnson Company: Numis Network Contribution Level: 2]

I learned about mini-site or (Mini-blogs) through a product named Google Sniper. You buy a domain with the keywords you are going after related to the product you are promoting. It has at least 3 blog posts, about me page, contact me page, and a privacy page.

The idea is if you choose a good keyword with little competition you can get ranked in Google search quickly without doing a lot of articles and backlinking or other marketing strategies. Then you just let the website sit and go make another site for another product.

Not my website, but this is a good example of one of them: {www. yourlovegurureview .com}

[Maurice Reese Company: GVO Hosting Contribution Level: 2]

Amazon is a great way to make a good living! The key to amazon is finding a niche where you can built a blog around and ranked on google quickly. It's really is easy too do. Once you know how. But to make the big bucks you need to to build a couple of sites that you can rank high on. My goals this year is to get to 100 sites.

[Rada Francis Contribution Level: 2]

Hmm, very interesting. I use Squidoo for blogging and advertising, but Amazon isn't really bringing in much. Like you guys are saying, it probably needs to have a lot of websites to actually pay out. Clickbank on the other hand can be utilized very quickly. Yesterday I made over $200 on just one sale. Definitely lots of possibilities.

[Shane Lavender Company: Usana Health Sciences, Inc. Contribution Level: 2]

I just started as an affiliate for Amazon about a week ago, so I haven't had a sale yet. Since I've never done this before, I'm having trouble figuring out how to get anywhere with it. I'm trying TrafficSwarm for advertising and the occassional Tweets, but traffic is very slow. I don't have my own website and don't have a budget for paid advertising. Anyway advice would be awesome!

Thanks,

Shane

[Joe Pariseau Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

I'm not an affiliate for Amazon but I know that a lot of people are doing well with them. It's right that with Amazon, it's all about the volume. More traffic basically means more commission. I have read a no -investment technique in the warrior forum before, it is simply building blogger blogs, posting rewritten PLR articles and adding amazon widgets with/or adsense in the sidebar. Not sure how well everyone did when they copied the process but a lot testified that they did earned something from it.

Hope this helps.
Joe P.
aka Master Joeda